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[fabsroman]

TD,

You had me worried there for a minute, so I went back and read my HOA agreement. Boy do I hate those things.

There is a nuisance paragraph in the Agreement, but there is no definition. If my running the compressor a couple of times a month qualifies as a nuisance, the rest of the area had better be really good. I would love for a Court to hold that my actions constitute a nuisance because I would hold everybody else to the same precedent. The guy next door makes as much noise as I do, if not more, and he has had a piece of plywood in place of a window on the lower level because his previous tenant broke the window. Yeah, it would be fun to receive a complaint from my neighbors.

What is funny is that I received a letter earlier in the year accusing me of dumping my remodel waste in the Condo Association dumpster. Of course I didn't do that, especially since I have a truck and the dump is only 10 minutes away and free. I was pissed. I wrote the HOA management company a response and asked for evidence, and they said that the person who reported it must have had the wrong address and it happens a lot.

I HATE HOA's, but as far as mine is concerned, it hasn't been too bad. According to the Agreement, we aren't supposed to have satellite dishes, but almost everybody does. There is also a limitation on the number and size of pets, but people have broken this too.

At the end of the day, I prefer to be nice to everybody around me, but I can be mean if I have to.